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May 2, 2010

 

Uncommon Schools and Williamsburg Collegiate Headlined as Example of Charter School Success

 

Uncommon Schools and Williamsburg Collegiate were featured as examples of successful “top-flight” charter schools in a front page article in the Sunday New York Times.

 

Read the full article here.

 

 

April 20, 2010

Mad Money’s Jim Cramer Visits Kings Collegiate!

 

Jim Cramer, host of  CNBC’s “Mad Money with Jim Cramer” visited Kings Collegiate Charter School. He taught Kings’ 7th graders a guest lesson on the stock market.

Watch him discuss his experience here.

 

April 6, 2010

Charter Schools Enlist Their Own as Recruitment Begins

 

Students and staff members from Uncommon Schools were featured on New York One spreading the word about spots for new 5th graders throughout their community.

View the video here.

 

March 7, 2010

Building a Better Teacher

Kings Collegiate Charter School is a member of Uncommon Schools. Uncommon Schools’ Taxonomy of Effective Teaching Practices was just published in book form and featured in an article in The New York  Times Magazine on efforts to enhance teacher effectiveness.

Read the full New York Times article here.

View the Taxonomy of Effective Teaching Practices here.

 

 

September 11, 2009

Ben's Bells Project

Click the link below to read an article about Kings students participating in the Ben's Bells Project..The mission of the Ben's Bells Project is "to inspire, educate and motivate each other to realize the impact of intentional kindness and to empower individuals to act according to that awareness, thereby changing the world."

Ben's Bells Article in the Arizona Star

The Ben's Bells Project Online